Carly Page reports: Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned. This standard, known as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, or DICOM for short, is the internationally…
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Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements (GAO Report)
GAO-24-105658 Published: Dec 04, 2023. Publicly Released: Dec 04, 2023. Fast Facts Federal agencies have made progress in preparing for and responding to cyber threats. For instance, agencies have improved their ability to detect, analyze, and handle incidents like ransomware attacks and data breaches. However, some agencies have not met the federal requirements for event…
Hackers Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability to Breach Federal Agency Servers
The Hacker News reports: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a high-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability by unidentified threat actors to gain initial access to government servers. “The vulnerability in ColdFusion (CVE-2023-26360) presents as an improper access control issue and exploitation of this CVE can result in arbitrary code execution,” CISA said,…
Russian hackers exploiting Outlook bug to hijack Exchange accounts
Bill Toulas reports: Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team issued a warning earlier today about the Russian state-sponsored actor APT28 (aka “Fancybear” or “Strontium”) actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts and steal sensitive information. The targeted entities include government, energy, transportation, and other key organizations in the United States, Europe, and the…
Britain dismisses report claiming Sellafield nuclear site hacking, says no malware exists on our system
FirstPost reports: Hours after The Guardian report claimed that UK’s most hazardous nuclear site Sellafield has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, Britain on Monday said that it has no records or evidence to suggest that networks were compromised. “Our monitoring systems are robust and we have a high degree of…
Research: Privacy as Pretense: Empirically Mapping the Gap Between Legislative & Judicial Protections of Privacy
Abstract While many statutes recognize that violations of privacy cause harm—and some even provide for private rights of action to enforce privacy rights—scholars have speculated that the judicial doctrine of Article III standing could create a procedural hurdle to remedying privacy harms. This empirical study maps the extent of that hurdle by investigating the data…